substantially improve social and consumer welfare. We also analyze how the underlying network influences the social welfare outcomes …. We define parameter w_G as the width of the network G and show that the price of anarchy is at least 1 - 1/2w …

This paper provides a comprehensive economic analysis of scheduling decisions in an airline network. Although it is … frequency is higher in a hub-and-spoke (HS) network than in a fully-connected (FC) network, confirming the conventional wisdom …. It is also shown that some passengers who could make a connecting trip under the HS network may find the existing flights …